Quotes
I love quotes, so decided to put a few (ok, alot!) of my faves on here behind a cut (since it is rather long)...thanks to bluesilverkdg for teaching me how to do it:)
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G. K. Chesterton
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. -Lord Byron
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Fr. Jerome Cummings
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. - Arab proverb
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. - Golda Meir
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. - George Allen
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Sir Thomas Beecham
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -Jerry Seinfeld
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. -Jerry Seinfeld
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. -Saint Augustine
I was in love with loving. -Saint Augustine, Confessions
Unless you believe, you will not understand. -Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. -Colette
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.- Van Morrison
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. - Bill Cosby
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. - Stella Benson
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - Sir John Bowring
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -Michael Pritchard
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.- Christina Rossetti
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose - William Shakespeare
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. - William Shakespeare
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -Martin Luther King
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. - Brandan Behan
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.- Ann Landers
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. - Edmond Rostand
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. -Michel de Montaigne
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. -Ronald Reagan
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -Andre Gide
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. -Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.-Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. -Helen Keller
Was it not great blindness that God Almighty, who created us, has so often made known to us that he is our Father, and finally even gave his Son for us; and he himself stands there and calls us poor sinners, saying "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." And we went and turned to the creature, and thought God to be so rough and cruel that we dare not come to him." - Huldryrch Zwingli
"When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." - CS Lewis
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." - CS Lewis
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."- CS Lewis
"There once was in man a true happiness of which now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself." - PASCAL
"The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?" - Martin Luther
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau
All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. -Bertrand Russell
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish
Proverb
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. -Albert Einstein
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. - Izaak Walton
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. - J. G. Holland
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -George Jessel
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -
Abraham Lincoln